More than four years later, Kim Dotcom's legal battles (at least in New Zealand) may be close to an end. His final appeal to avoid extradition to face charges in the U.S started yesterday in Auckland's High Court, and is expected to last six weeks. And, in a first for any case in New Zealand (and in typical Kim Dotcom fashion), the appeal is being live-streamed. All of the… Read More

UPPER CHICHESTER, Pa. — Spearheading the ground operation for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, a state GOP field director Wednesday led a half-dozen volunteers knocking on doors in this blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia to drum up support and build a voter database for a get-out-the-vote push in November.

Advanced technologies and the rapid adoption of electronic health records are enabling the physical world to merge with the digital, leading to explosive growth in the volume and quality of clinical data. Cognified care is the application of analytics to transform this newly available digitized clinical data into knowledge that can revolutionize healthcare. Read More

Hiring known criminals to work at a hospital that doles out painkillers continues to end badly for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Puerto Rico, as a Glock-toting secretary with a previous record for illegal firearms possession died in a brazen mid-day shooting that also wounded a three-year-old child. Jorge E. Diaz-Camacho was shot Sunday afternoon while leaving […]

The Galaxy Note 7 seems like a pretty decent phone if you like phones literally the size of the galaxy (Brian does) — but be aware that Samsung's curvy-screened flagship device may be prone to, well, exploding. Fear not, however: Samsung is looking into it. Read More

While President Enrique Pena Nieto may have sought to help Mexicans living in the U.S. by welcoming presidential candidate Donald Trump into his mansion on Wednesday, reaction following the summit seems to indicate he wasn't too focused on how it would play at home.

(John Hinderaker) Rasmussen Reports (which, I believe, Scott Rasmussen sold several years ago) isn't always "right," in the sense that its surveys predict election results. But Rasmussen consistently asks interesting questions. Today, Rasmussen investigated whether there is hidden support for Donald Trump that is not showing up in the polls: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 17% of Likely Republican Voters are less likely this year to let others

Donald Trump — the modern day Paul Revere — rocked the political world when he jumped into the race last year warning about the invasion across America's southern border that politicians in both parties had been desperately trying to cover up for ...

Instacart, the grocery-ordering app, is getting creative about picking, packing and delivering food on-demand. TechCrunch got an aisle-side view of how the company's people and technology come together on location at Costco in San Francisco. And one thing's clear: The San Francisco startup has changed grocery stores for good. According to the company's Chief of Operations… Read More

As a cultural indicator, the 2016 presidential election appears to have gone far beyond partisan politics and political theater. It is now perceived by many American voters as "a battle between good and evil," this according to William Jordan, elections analyst for YouGov polls. The pollster recently asked a large ...

Steel Wool Studio, an Oakland-based company made up of Pixar veterans with a few decades of animation experience under their belts, announced today that it has closed a $5 million round of Series A funding. Interestingly, the investment came entirely from HTC, the manufacturer of the Vive virtual reality headset. In the past six months, HTC has launched a number of initiatives aimed at… Read More

A group of five engineers and product people get together, raise some angel funding, build a startup, make little to no money and sell for $10 million. What just happened? Common narratives assert that it's the tech bubble; it's a naive acqui-hire; it's collective irrationality. Maybe it's something else altogether: a fundamental shift in how we compensate the extreme… Read More

Donald Trump plans a visit to Mexico today to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto on the same day Trump will speak on his immigration plans. Blomberg's Marty Schenker reports on "Bloomberg 'GO'." (Source: Bloomberg)

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Wednesday described Donald Trump's trip to Mexico later in the day as "the beginning of a conversation" and that it says a lot that Mr. Trump is willing to drop what he's doing to take the meeting.

The ZenScreen is a strange, but intriguing duck. It's not a tablet or a convertible notebook, it's a 15.6-inch portable screen. That mean it's not a standalone device so much as it is an extra display designed to offer laptop users additional real estate on the go, connect to a primary device via USB-A or C. ASUS is really pushing the portability factor here, and with a… Read More